The Brookhaven leader., 1887-04-21

| consent, Many OK the mightiest and he 81
spirits have gone through this process
thousands and tens Of thousands OF
Gods Children have been crewatet--
Z. q. Bliss and wife, the cvangelistic
| singers, crer1ated by accident at Ashta
buia bridge; John Rodgers, cremated by
persecution; Latimer aud Ridley, cremat
cd at Oxford; Potuinus AMI BlIndiun, q
slave, and Alexander, q physician, and
their comrades, crcmatei at the order c
Marcus Aurcliu3-at least one hundred
thousand Of Christ's disciples crenated-
and thcre can be no doubt about the re
| surrection Of their bodies
IL the word lasts as L. uch longer % Il
| has already been built there perhaps
! may be no room Tor the Largo acreage set
| apart for the resting places, but that
! time has not come. Plenty of room yet,
| and the race need not pass that hI.dyr OF
/ fire until IT comes - il, The most of us
! prefer the old way. But neither out OF
/ natural d!Siutcyration or crcm ltion. we
/ shall get that luminous. buoyant, glad
some. trdnsccudent. magnificent, mex.
! plicablc structure called the result rccICn
body, YOU will have Il. will have Il.
| say to you to-daN "a Paul sail 70 Agrip-
! pa:
Why should IL be thou yht n tsi-e Incredible
Z
The far-up cloud, h ga ~ than the hawk
iics, higher thin the eagle flies, what IS it
made or Drops Of water from the Hud-
son, other drops from the East River. ether
drops from stnsnnBt pool out on Newark
! tdts-up tCtdcr there, and mbodiei in a
rlcud, and the sun kind.cs ID. If God can
make such lustrous cloud OF water
drops, many Of Thorn sDilci and impure,
and fetched from miles away can he rot
transport the Fragments of the human
BODY from the earth, ana ont Of them build
a radiant body: Can not God. ,rho owns
all the material out or which bones and
muscle AMI fash arc male. set them up
again If thew have TALENT II mlnuf fact.
urer OF telescopes drop telescope ola the
floor, and 1t breaks, can he not mend
1t again so you can see through
it' And il Col drops the human
eye into the dust, the cra which
he originally fashioned, can te not
restore it, Ave, if the manufacturer of
the telescope, by 4 change OF the glass AMI
a chouge of focus, can make a bettor glass
than that which was origin lily con
structcj, ard actually improve f., co you
nci think the fasbioner Of the human eye
may improve its eight and multiply the
natural evo by the thousand fold addition
al force of the resurrection eYcl
Way Should 1t be thought q thing incredible
with YOU thar God should raise tn. deada
Things al! around va sngscst il Cat OF
what grew all IL 80 flowers. OIt OF the
mold and tie earth. Resurrcctei. R,sur.
Terted The radiant butterfly, where did
II come FRONT The loath1Omc cltet pillar.
That albatross that smtes the tempest
with Its wing, where dit it coma fromi y
scnseles8 shell.
Near Bergerlc Ftanae, in Calt'c omb
under Z block, wcra found flower seed
that had been buried two thousand years.
The explorer TOOK the Hower seed and
planted il, ard II came ups; 1t blcomed in
hlHebel and ho.iutropn. Two thousand
years ago buried, yet resurrectedl
A traveller says he founj in a mummy
pit IN Il ,ypt garden peas that had been
burici there three thousand years ago.
de brought them out, and on the .iJh of
Juac. 1871, he planted them, ana in thii
days they sNrlng up. Barred thrsa thea.
sand years, ya' resurrHCtel
Why should f. ne thought thing mere li1!c
with You that God should raise the dealf
Where did all this silk come froul-the
silk that adorns your persons and your
honest lii the hollow Of staff I Greek
missionary brought from China to Europe
the prOCenitors &C those worms IN 4 now
supply the silk markets OF many nations
The paGoaatry OF hammered host aul The
luxurious articles CT commercial empo-
rum blazing out from the silk worms.
And who shall b. surpris ed II out of this
insignificant earthly body, this insiCnih-
cant earthly life. our bodies unfold into
something worthy OF the coming eterai-
ties.
Put silver into diluta1 nitro and it dis
solves. Is the silver g)n3 forever: No
Put in some pieces Of copper ana the silver
reappears. II one force dissolyes, another
force organizes.
Why should II be thought thing incredible
with you that Goa should raise the dead?
The insects few and the worms crawiel
last autumn feeb!er ana feebler, and thrn
stopped. They have taxe1 no food they
want none. They lay dormant and in
Sensible, but soon the south wind will
blow the resurrection trumpet. and the
air and the earth viii be full Of them. Do
you not thuk that Col can DO "a much
for our bodies as he does fOt the wasp3
and the spiders and the snai.si This
morning at 80 o'clock there was a resur-
rectiou Out of the night the day. In Ia
few weeks there VIII be resurrection
in al our gardens. Wig not some daT
Ever and anon there are instances Of
men and women eatran eel \ trance Is
death followed by resurrection after a
few days; total suspension Of mental
power and acIiop. Rev. VIII
lam TcnneD, great evangelist
Of the last generatioo, OF whom
DR.. Arch bald Alex IN Ter a MAJ ia" from
being sentimental, wrote in most eulo-
CYSTIC terms-Rcv. William Tennat seemed
10 die. His spirl: departed People came
| III day after dav and said: al is dead;
| he is dead" Bat the soul that tla re
turn %, and W Liam Tenet !iv d 10 write
out the experiences OF what h. Ind se4n
while his sou! Lad gOlA. | may be- found
/ some time that VIII 1t il called saserIl.l
animation or cO!natOSt At - IS brief death
| giving the sOui an cxrurs. ! INTO IN, nos:
world, from WlicA it comes b .c'i, a fur
/ Tough Of few hours gtantcl from the
conflict of life to which It must return.
Do not this waking up of meI from
! trance, and this waking up of insects
| from winter liIelessless, and this waking
! up CT grains barred three thJlSaud wears
ago, make II easier for y04 to believe that
| Your body ana mind after the vacation Of
| the grayH Shall rouse AMI rally. though
| there be three thousan years between
| our last breath All the. sounding Of tn =
archangelic reveiile!
! PhysiolOgists tellus that while the most
! of our bodies are built with such wonder
| fdl economy that we can spare nothing,
and the loss of q finger is him
eerment, and the injury OF u toe
| joint mokes as lame, still that we have
| two o. thrp9 1Iablps1 nhuziral anna